On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:15:25AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:35:19PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > - Debian 3.0 doesn't support much of the hardware curently available -
> > > the old 2.4.18 kernel on the boot floppies doesn't even boot on many
> > > new computers (some Promise IDE chipsets require a more recent 2.4
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > kernel), and much hardware from nearly all currently abailable
> > ^^^^^^
> >
> > This is false. All the promise IDE chipsets are adequetely supported
> > by 2.4.18, albeit not in anything above ata-33 mode. The only problem
> > is that autodetection fails for some of the newer ones, and you have
> > to manually specify the controller ports.
>
> That's false.
Bull. I've used several on 2.4.18 through 2.4.21 for years, and I'm
fairly certain I covered all the chipsets (there aren't many). Don't
try to tell me that it doesn't work.
> I still can't use my Promise drive in DMA mode (must use -d 0 with hdparm)
> because heavy write activity causes the kernel to hang.
We are not talking about Promise hard drives (I didn't know they sold
IDE drives, I've only seen SCSI ones under their label). And that does
sound like a hard drive bug (or a bad cable) to me, I've seen a few
drives do that before.
This is not evidence of a lack of controller support.
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